I know...I may as well be holding "I'm a uptight loser who hates fun" sign, but I just want to vent here.I have OCD. I really, really hate any kind of toilet humor, or gross-out humor in general. It genuinely upsets me. I have to take my phone with me into the bathroom so that I don't have to think about the fact that I'm going to the bathroom.In TS2 and TS3, animals peed, which I could deal with--Sims pee, after all--but they didn't poop. And now they do.I know poop has been a thing since the "Flaming bag" of TS2, but that was pretty easy to avoid. And I don't mind the "holding the bag" chance card result in the Criminal Career. But if you have a pet in TS4, this is something you're going to have to constantly deal with, to the point where I don't even know if I want to get Cats and Dogs, even though I *really* love my Sims owning pets in the previous games. Please, if anyone else is bothered by this, let me know. Or even if you're not, I feel like I could use some validation right now.

Granted, I play more with cats than with dogs, so I get to use litter boxes. I always spring for the expensive one with lasers so that I don't have to clean the litter box. Not just because I'm worried I'll forget, but because I hate doing it. (Irl as well as in game) I'm not as bothered by it as you are, but that doesn't mean it's a feature I like.There's also a mod out there for an "outdoor" litterbox that's two rocks that never needs cleaning, if you're not adverse to mods.So that's a solution for cats. I don't have one for dogs, unfortunately. Wish I did, I might have more sim families have dogs as pets.

I feel you. Sometimes I feel like I apuld see it everwhere. I get a bit grossed out when I ocasionally find it in my sims' inventory. I also get confused since I never tell them to pick it up, throw it away, but not just pick it up.

I wish they'd at least turn down the frequency of it a bit. Like I understand having a pet, they go to the bathroom often (I have three cats and one dog), but maybe in The Sims it could be a little less often?

A few years ago my cats and dogs never ate on their own or pooped...I thought it was a bug, but it turned out to be caused by a mod, that fullfilled the needs of my animals everytime I loaded the game or the family. If the poop bothers you that much, you could try to put the mod in your game. It's called "No Sick, Dirty, Sad and Hungry Cats & Dogs" by LittleMissSam. In the description it says: "Disable Decay Prevenger Buff for owned Pets:When loading a Household the Part of the Mod which adds a hidden Buff which decreases the Decay of Needs will be disabled"So technically your dogs will never poop again if you download this part of the mod (if I understood this correctly. English is not my first language). But this also means that your pets are never hungry or sick. If I remember correctly you can still call them to eat manually, they will take a few bites and stop to eat.Maybe this mod will help you with your problem and you can enjoy your game with the furry friends. :)

I'm not really a fan of toilet humour either. Although in Sims Freeplay, one time I got up to walk with my iPad to the kitchen and the Sims started losing their footing and acting like they were in an earthquake and then they all got dizzy and vomited on the ground. That was hilarious. :joy: For the pets, I always get the self-cleaning litter. It's great, shoots lasers at the cat poop, you don't have to do anything. For the dogs, not much you can do otherwise consider creating a robot dog in CAS. I wish we could teach them to do their business in a certain place.

I hate that pets poop. | EA Forums

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wexxam
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
Oh God please don't tell me you want to them to REMOVE a feature from an already bare pack?
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
3 years ago
"sam123;c-18051280" wrote:
Oh God please don't tell me you want to them to REMOVE a feature from an already bare pack?

I have to agree with you on that statement.

The only thing about the "Cats & Dogs" pack that really bothers me is that if you don't play a household with pets for awhile, then come back, all the pets are sick and dying. :|
simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
Dogs will eat cat poop also. We noticed there wasn't any poop in our cat's litter box for a few days and thought she was sick. Then we noticed she'd pooped and later it disappeared. ? Had to make an enclosure with a cat door for the litter box.
wexxam
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
"Admiral8Q;c-18051400" wrote:
"sam123;c-18051280" wrote:
Oh God please don't tell me you want to them to REMOVE a feature from an already bare pack?

I have to agree with you on that statement.

The only thing about the "Cats & Dogs" pack that really bothers me is that if you don't play a household with pets for awhile, then come back, all the pets are sick and dying. :|

I don't even use pets anymore, I find them so boring in this game.
LynnPlayz1
3 years ago
I don't have Cats & Dogs, so I didn't know that pets poop, but it does make sense. And now that I think about it, it could be really useful for medieval story telling! Not that my medieval fantasy setting is super unsanitary, but poop would make a fine addition to pig stys and the occasional filthy alley. Never thought I'd get so excited about poo...
nikkiheathcote95
New Spectator
3 years ago
Everyone poops ?, I personally feed my dog in game the poop colouring treat, yes I'm easily amused ?
Feestbloempje
3 years ago
"Nikkih;c-18052178" wrote:
Everyone poops ?, I personally feed my dog in game the poop colouring treat, yes I'm easily amused ?

You and me both! :D But this made me wonder if rainbow poops make better fertilizer. I use the regular ones all the time, they're pretty good plant food.
nikkiheathcote95
New Spectator
3 years ago
"GreenTurtle;c-18052200" wrote:
"Nikkih;c-18052178" wrote:
Everyone poops ?, I personally feed my dog in game the poop colouring treat, yes I'm easily amused ?

You and me both! :D But this made me wonder if rainbow poops make better fertilizer. I use the regular ones all the time, they're pretty good plant food.

Glad it's not just me ? @GreenTurtle
PenguinFoop
3 years ago
I love that someone who hates to even think about pooping created a thread that we all get to talk about poop. Lol I wonder how many times the word poop will show up in this poop thread.

Interesting fact: In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, countless creatures on Earth will be pooping. And in the time that it takes two sims to woohoo countless critters will be doing it in real life. Just some things to think about.
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
3 years ago

For one thing, the "Cats and Dogs" pack does not force you play them. Also the game world is amazing.
Secondly, if you do play a 'household' with a cat and or dog, then it's part of the game play if you want to. I enjoy it.

What I said earlier is that if you play other 'households' then come back to the one with pets, unfortunately for some reason it's programmed into the game for the pets to be all sick and on the verge of death. :(

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